The unsuspecting students think they are participating in some sort of fun club, but they are really being shown how easily impressionable people can be attracted by autocracy.

Based on a true experiment in the States in the sixties, this is the German remake, which just goes to show that a dictatorship could arise anywhere, anytime! He claims that in between high-brow cinema, as films by Christian Petzold, and the entertaining comedies by Til Schweiger there was a vast gap in Germany, which urgently had to be filled.At first sight German socio-political thriller film The Wave initially just seems too cute, convenient and contrived.

Film focuses on a group of smart people, highlighting further that what's bound to happen is even more tragic and rings a bell to what can happen out of celluloid. I say that because the Wave, meaning the organization they formed, could easily have been something good. Director Dennis Gansel seems to like movies about the power of groups and how they affect the individual. The major difference, however, concerns the physical violence and the bloody end which became part of the movie. Some of the kids are too ridiculous to be real, eg the kid who is always making silly jokes and pranks without any repercussions.The change to the subjective view of the thoughtful character corresponds to the dramatic composition throughout the film. A history teacher, Rainer Wenger, is forced to teach a class on autocracy, despite being an anarchist and wanting to teach the class on anarchy. However, the movie just feels like director Dennis Gansel never really fully let go and delved as much into the storyline as he could have.

Jürgen Vogel playing the accused and victim of the wrong doing does well and few key students characters support him well. Speaking of being all over brings us to the climax and it's not spoiling to mention that the film's conclusion is far more melodramatic than that of the actual Third Wave, though fair to add, by no means beyond the bounds of credibility. But the character‘s composition was also defended: “The categorization is rather necessary here, because it shows the vulnerability of entirely different people for one and the same idea.I have always been very interested in this subject: The question of whether fascism could happen again, how the fascist system works, how people can be led astray. He filled the hour with convincing talk about how discipline and community were positive," says Neel. As a consequence, Todd Strasser, whose novel popularized the material in Germany, and the publisher Ravensburg, did not receive direct revenues from the film project.

Christiane Paul as Anke Wenger, the wife of Rainer who teaches in the same school but leaves him after seeing how much damage The Wave is affecting both the school and their students. Horrified, Wenger cradles his corpse and looks on helplessly at how his own vanity and foolishness have resulted in his whole class being scarred for the rest of their lives. The characterizations(and only a few lack a fully realized arc) are strong, and through this, we can see the effects of the fascism on different people.The appeal of The Wave, and by extension that of all populist-authoritarian movements, is that they provide a sense of unity, of belonging, of purpose. Die welle" should be seen as a cautionary tale by serious minded individuals thanks to the inspired film by Dennis Gansel.